Rep. Mace files bill to label Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organization
Dubbed the No Amnesty for Hamas Sympathizers Act, Nancy Mace’s latest bill aims to disallow individuals who have lived in Palestinian-administered territories or hold passports or other travel documents issued by the Palestinian Authority to enter the United States, according to a press release sent Tuesday.(AP Photo/John McDonnell)
(WCIV) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace announced Tuesday the filing of a bill that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization within the country.
According to a news release from Mace’s office, the Muslim Brotherhood is a Terrorist Organization Act would activate critical national security tools – financial sanctions, asset freezes, travel bans and targeted law enforcement – to dismantle the group’s operations within the United States and globally.
“The Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t just support terrorism, it inspires it,” Mace said. “President Trump was right when he said the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to global security, and it’s long past time we call them what they are: terrorists.”
Following a June attack in Colorado, which saw pro-Israel protestors injured when a man from Egypt, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, allegedly yelled “free Palestine” while throwing incendiary devices at the crowd, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have called on the U.S. government to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation.
Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, in the days after the attack, said he would also reintroduce a “modernized version of the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act” in the Senate, after claiming the group used the Biden administration “to consolidate and deepen their influence.”
In the coming days, I will be circulating and re-introducing a modernized version of the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, which I have been pushing for my entire Senate career.
As I told the Free Beacon, the Muslim Brotherhood used the Biden administration to…
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 3, 2025
Mace’s bill appears to do the same in the U.S. House.
In early 2019, during the first Trump administration, the White House worked to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organisation.
Recently, Jordan announced in April a sweeping ban on the Muslim Brotherhood, according to reporting from The Associated Press. The monarchy banned the Muslim Brotherhood a decade ago but officially licensed a splinter group and continued to tolerate the Islamic Action Front, a political party linked to the regionwide Brotherhood, while restricting some of its activities.
The Muslim Brotherhood was established in Egypt nearly a century ago and has branches worldwide. Its leaders say it renounced violence decades ago and seeks to set up Islamic rule through elections and other peaceful means.
Egypt already describes the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists. Current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi overthrew President Mohammed Morsi in 2013, a former Brotherhood leader.
“This bill marks a serious shift in U.S. foreign policy,” Mace’s office said in a statement, “away from appeasement and back toward the strong, clear-eyed national security vision championed by President Trump: Put America First. Confront Islamic extremism. Defend our people.”
